Orchard Place Elem School

Orchard Place Elem School, a cozy primary school in Des Plaines, Illinois, part of CCSD 62, enrolls 258 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 11 schools in CCSD 62 (4,520 students total), Orchard Place Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Orchard Place Elem School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 19% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Orchard Place Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Orchard Place Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Orchard Place Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Iroquois Community School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orchard Place Elem School at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 54.0%.

Orchard Place Elem School operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 286 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 77% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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